Posted on 01/05/2012 5:25:15 PM PST by mdittmar
Republican presidential upstart Rick Santorum found himself under increasing scrutiny on Thursday as front-runner Mitt Romney tried to chip away at his credibility ahead of the key New Hampshire primary. Santorum's surge in Iowa, which held its nominating contest on Tuesday, was so quick that his record as a U.S. senator and strong conservative views against abortion and gay marriage escaped close attention from his 2012 presidential rivals and the media. His entry into New Hampshire was rocky. College students booed him at New England College over his position against gay marriage and he was forced to explain a remark he made in Iowa that appeared to single out blacks as recipients of federal assistance. A Suffolk University tracking poll showed Romney on cruise control in New Hampshire ahead of its primary next Tuesday but that Santorum had risen to a distant third. It gave Romney 41 percent support, Ron Paul 18 percent and Santorum 8 percent, and Romney spent the day campaigning in South Carolina. After finishing a close second to Romney in Iowa and bursting into the limelight, Santorum is under the microscope, drawing fire from Senator John McCain, a Romney supporter who clashed often with Santorum over government spending when they were Senate colleagues.
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Dishwasher waste.
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Santorum’s Father was an immigrant.
I sure hope he was a citizen before Rick was conceived.
Why would you deem that relevant? Are you suggesting he was ILLEGAL? If not it's completely absurd that you would even mention it.
I am not a birther, but many would argue that if Pappy wasn't naturalized when Rick was conceived, there could be an issue.
I don't say this to slight Rick, I say it to rub your nose in your obsession with immigration law.
This is all about that age-old human emotion ... envy, and its leering, spiteful handmaiden, gossip. If I envy what you have, I need not pull myself up to your level. I can drag you down to mine.
Was Ricks Pappy naturalized when Rick was conceived?
If not, is Rick a natural born citizen eligible for the Presidency?
You tell me.
You’re the expert on these matters.
You're not rubbing my nose in anything, you're just making a fool of yourself by revealing that you lack the intellect to identify with conservatives who oppose ILLEGAL immigration. But, by all means, please continue. Just do it publicly and stop PMing me.
Oops! Posted to the wrong thread.
Good night.
If you have any credible information to prove Rick Santorum's father was not legal you would have provided it. Clearly you don't. You're just hell bent on making a fool of yourself. Have at it.
Not for you it wasn't.
BTW the PM was an attempt to give you heads up on the subject.
A courtesy to you.
I don’t care what it was for. Stop PMing me.
I PM’ed you with only one message, although I did send it twice.
My bad.
You either have a drinking problem or you are extremely disturbed. Either way you're way too creepy...don't PM me again.
You know damn well the story behind the Tx DREAM act. Tx was forced into a financially untenable situation by the FED, Then the Tx Legislature passed the bill by an unvetoeble margin with only 4 dissenting votes, and YOU have been trying to make it a millstone around Perry's neck for as long as he has been in the race.
If you listened to Santorum’s speech Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, you’d have heard his family’s immigration history. His grandfather came to the US and became a citizen in five years, as was the standard at the time. He saved his money and brought his son (Sen. Santorum’s father) here as a young child @ 10 years old.
If his grandfather saw to getting US citizenship for himself in 5 years, one would assume he’d have done the same for his son. I don’t think we understand today how very important obtaining US citizenship was to immigrants during the first half of the 20th Century.
As to your underlying NBC question, his father was a US citizen long before Sen. Santorum was born, so he fits the Constitutional eligibility requirement under any interpretation.
Numerous sources say that it was his father that was an immigrant and none of them define when they were naturalized.
As I have said, my post was not about getting Santorum, it was about punching South40 in the nose for some of his BAD behavior.
RIP Aldo Santorum
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